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"Microsoft Announces Modern OS" by Paul Thurrott
"Microsoft Announces Modern OS" by Paul Thurrott
https://www.thurrott.com/windows/win...nces-modern-os In an otherwise innocuous blog post about new PCs announce at Computex, Microsoft talked up the need for something it calls Modern OS. And it does not appear to be Windows 10. “A modern operating system is required for these new, modern PCs and innovative devices that the ecosystem will continue to build and bring to market,” Microsoft’s Nick Parker writes after running down a list of new PCs from Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, and MSI." "Of this Modern OS—and, yes, it’s both “Modern OS” and “a modern OS”—Parker says it:" "Provides a set of enablers that deliver the foundational experiences customers expect from their devices. These enablers include “seamless updates where updates are invisibly done in the background; the update experience is deterministic, reliable, and instant with no interruptions.” So he clearly not talking about Windows 10." How many operating systems has Microsoft announced now ? Lynn |
"Microsoft Announces Modern OS" by Paul Thurrott
On 05/06/2019 20:44, Lynn McGuire wrote:
How many operating systems has Microsoft announced now ? You should know the answer to this question because you are experienced in trolling all over the web. We won't know this. Please let us know when you have found the answer. -- With over 950 million devices now running Windows 10, customer satisfaction is higher than any previous version of windows. |
"Microsoft Announces Modern OS" by Paul Thurrott
On 6/5/19 3:44 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
"Provides a set of enablers that deliver the foundational experiences customers expect from their devices. These enablers include “seamless updates where updates are invisibly done in the background; the update experience is deterministic, reliable, and instant with no interruptions.”*So*he*clearly*not*talking* about*Windows*10." Hey what's so Modern about updates in the background without interruption? Linux updates all the time without rebooting or interrupting my work. |
"Microsoft Announces Modern OS" by Paul Thurrott
On Wed, 5 Jun 2019 14:44:19 -0500, in alt.comp.os.windows-10, Lynn
McGuire wrote: "Microsoft Announces Modern OS" by Paul Thurrott https://www.thurrott.com/windows/win...nces-modern-os How many operating systems has Microsoft announced now ? TL;DR - Microsoft is rebranding Win RT. -- Zag No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer.' ~Dan(i) Bunten |
"Microsoft Announces Modern OS" by Paul Thurrott
On 6/5/2019 5:19 PM, Zaghadka wrote:
On Wed, 5 Jun 2019 14:44:19 -0500, in alt.comp.os.windows-10, Lynn McGuire wrote: "Microsoft Announces Modern OS" by Paul Thurrott https://www.thurrott.com/windows/win...nces-modern-os How many operating systems has Microsoft announced now ? TL;DR - Microsoft is rebranding Win RT. Now that makes sense ! Thanks, Lynn |
"Microsoft Announces Modern OS" by Paul Thurrott
"Lynn McGuire" wrote
| TL;DR - Microsoft is rebranding Win RT. | | Now that makes sense ! | I'm not so sure about that. They recently announced the opposite: https://www.theverge.com/platform/am...-windows-store Long story short: "Modern" AKA Metro AKA RT is basically javascript running in a browser window. Phone apps. But they have no phone or tablet to speak of. And game companies were complaining that Metro or even .Net are not adequately powerful for games. So MS are phasing out Metro and letting Win32 API come in from the doghouse; and will sell Win32 software (that is, compiled desktop software that uses the actual Win32 API rather than slow wrappers) in the Windows store. The feeling seems to be that if they don't then they'll have little chance of selling anything in their store. Metro was nonsense from the beginning and still is. They were hoping to pull an Apple, extorting fees from developers, but they don't have a phone to make that possible. That sounds great to me. Win32 is all I write and all I use. But I worry that it could be a trick -- a plan to start requiring a license and a kickback from anyone who wants their software to be allowed on Windows. As for Thurrott's piece: It doesn't help that Microsofties struggle with English literacy. Enablers? Delighters? Their marketing gobbledygook is barely readable. But what it looks like to me is another category of product. In other words, not really a new direction for the basic workhorse PC, but a new, closed system -- basically a kiosk system -- for the so-called Internet of things. It appears to also include a big dose of Jetsons futurism. They seem to be talking "vision" at this point more than product. And Paul Thurrott depends for his living on talking up whatever marketing drivel comes out of the MS PR dept. So it's not really surprising. Personally I don't see any of it as something to be taken seriously: "Microsoft say they're on the cutting edge and that someday you'll be able to make a dentist appt while ordering groceries, all by just looking at your Microsoft FabTab." Big whoop, as the saying goes. |
"Microsoft Announces Modern OS" by Paul Thurrott
On Wed, 5 Jun 2019 21:49:29 -0400, in alt.comp.os.windows-10, Mayayana
wrote: "Lynn McGuire" wrote | TL;DR - Microsoft is rebranding Win RT. | | Now that makes sense ! | I'm not so sure about that. They recently announced the opposite: https://www.theverge.com/platform/am...-windows-store Oh, they may rework the UWP or ditch it entirely, but what they're still trying to do is create a light OS in a walled garden that runs on more than just x86/x64 in order to be Apple, which they just aren't. It's not literally going to be Win RT, but it'll be the same dumb ideas on a different day. So, in spirit, Win RT then. Microsoft frequently goes "back to the future." They also ditch products quickly and leave users twisting when it goes wrong, like Windows Phone (several iterations) and Zune. So much for buying into the Store and UWP. They will probably ditch it and leave people twisting again. Lucky for me I don't have much UWP software that I've bought. Or it's yet another compatibility layer they're going to have to add. Maybe it'll be called UWPOW? They keep pulling this "Oooh SQUIRREL!" stuff and they complicate their product to the point where they can't do QA on it any more. Not good. -- Zag No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer.' ~Dan(i) Bunten |
"Microsoft Announces Modern OS" by Paul Thurrott
On 6/5/2019 5:19 PM, Zaghadka wrote:
On Wed, 5 Jun 2019 14:44:19 -0500, in alt.comp.os.windows-10, Lynn McGuire wrote: "Microsoft Announces Modern OS" by Paul Thurrott https://www.thurrott.com/windows/win...nces-modern-os How many operating systems has Microsoft announced now ? TL;DR - Microsoft is rebranding Win RT. I was at my BBQ place yesterday and all of the registers were showing a Windows logo on their seven inch display terminals. They had gotten some sort of an update and their register display app no longer worked. I had no idea if they were running XP, 7, 8, or 10. Just the four colored flowing squares. Kinda like this: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/F...ticolored).svg Lynn |
"Microsoft Announces Modern OS" by Paul Thurrott
On Thu, 6 Jun 2019 13:36:05 -0500, in alt.comp.os.windows-10, Lynn
McGuire wrote: On 6/5/2019 5:19 PM, Zaghadka wrote: On Wed, 5 Jun 2019 14:44:19 -0500, in alt.comp.os.windows-10, Lynn McGuire wrote: "Microsoft Announces Modern OS" by Paul Thurrott https://www.thurrott.com/windows/win...nces-modern-os How many operating systems has Microsoft announced now ? TL;DR - Microsoft is rebranding Win RT. I was at my BBQ place yesterday and all of the registers were showing a Windows logo on their seven inch display terminals. They had gotten some sort of an update and their register display app no longer worked. I had no idea if they were running XP, 7, 8, or 10. Just the four colored flowing squares. Kinda like this: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/F...ticolored).svg That logo means either Win 7 or Vista. Probably an embedded version. They should probably update their operating software, LOL. -- Zag No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer.' ~Dan(i) Bunten |
"Microsoft Announces Modern OS" by Paul Thurrott
On Wednesday, June 5, 2019 at 3:44:23 PM UTC-4, Lynn McGuire wrote:
How many operating systems has Microsoft announced now ? Lynn Don't worry. They'll get it right eventually. |
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